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ataraxionlogs2015-05-12 11:59 am
fullmoon) wrote in ataraxionlogs2015-05-12 11:59 am
here lies the abyss
CHARACTERS: OPEN.
LOCATION: Science labs, Level Two.
WARNINGS: Black, eternal nothingness.
SUMMARY: To congratulate Xenogen on the appearance of their new endless void. And their new nanite research and storage facility. That's probably important too.
NOTES: Consolidated post for abyss and nanite-room gaping, gazing, and experimentation.
There are greater tragedies than their ruined map, it turns out. Missing people. Dead people. So while Remus and Sirius notice the change nearly straight away, checking in on the map out of miserable habit--like poking a bruise to confirm that it still hurts--the appearance of a fully-functional display of the science department isn't enough to take precedence over other things, such as drinking and kicking walls and sorting through what the departed left behind.
But they do, eventually, sit down to study it. The inky walls are mostly where they're meant to be, and the Homonculous Charm is working again, displaying a half-dozen lonely dots labelled as science department members scurrying in and out of view. (It isn't spying if you don't know or care what anyone is doing.) Even this one department is massive, their attention to detail both a blessing and a difficult-to-process curse, so combing over it takes time. And assistance, courtesy of Kate. And also, importantly, alcohol. It's two return visits before one of them says, probably with a mouthful of terrible whisky, "I don't think that was there before."
That: a small room across from the containment chambers, labelled nanite storage and research. And a second that, discovered soon afterwards: a new corridor, leading away from the department and toward the centre of the ship, with an adjacent Lab E.
It isn't a personal slight against anyone in particular (or only very small slight against Xenogen, which still has Severus Snape's fingerprints everywhere) that they go to have a look on their own. It's just that they're Gryffindors. You understand.
LOCATION: Science labs, Level Two.
WARNINGS: Black, eternal nothingness.
SUMMARY: To congratulate Xenogen on the appearance of their new endless void. And their new nanite research and storage facility. That's probably important too.
NOTES: Consolidated post for abyss and nanite-room gaping, gazing, and experimentation.
There are greater tragedies than their ruined map, it turns out. Missing people. Dead people. So while Remus and Sirius notice the change nearly straight away, checking in on the map out of miserable habit--like poking a bruise to confirm that it still hurts--the appearance of a fully-functional display of the science department isn't enough to take precedence over other things, such as drinking and kicking walls and sorting through what the departed left behind.
But they do, eventually, sit down to study it. The inky walls are mostly where they're meant to be, and the Homonculous Charm is working again, displaying a half-dozen lonely dots labelled as science department members scurrying in and out of view. (It isn't spying if you don't know or care what anyone is doing.) Even this one department is massive, their attention to detail both a blessing and a difficult-to-process curse, so combing over it takes time. And assistance, courtesy of Kate. And also, importantly, alcohol. It's two return visits before one of them says, probably with a mouthful of terrible whisky, "I don't think that was there before."
That: a small room across from the containment chambers, labelled nanite storage and research. And a second that, discovered soon afterwards: a new corridor, leading away from the department and toward the centre of the ship, with an adjacent Lab E.
It isn't a personal slight against anyone in particular (or only very small slight against Xenogen, which still has Severus Snape's fingerprints everywhere) that they go to have a look on their own. It's just that they're Gryffindors. You understand.
no subject
[ Professionals. Fitz's brow furrows as he watches the diagnostics, and after a beat of silence he drags his attention away from the screen to peer out into the void. ]
No. There's nothing.
[ Which doesn't sound horrified so much as gently bemused, maybe a little curious. ]
no subject
[--Sirius echoes, with a look at Remus. Nearly a Look. Isn't that what you had just said, Mr Moony. Nothing. How interesting.
Mildly, he leans forward a little, trying to get a glimpse of the little robot.]
What's he meant to pick up on? [Also--] Can you drive him around in there? I'll bet you can't. There's nothing to drive on. We chucked this dog biscuit in there and it was seriously heavy and the most it did was sink, a little. Like it was on wet sand. If I weigh your little robot down a bit I wonder if it'll fall then.
[Idly, he twirls his wand between his fingers as he observes Grumpy in space.]
no subject
Nothing like the sensors aren't working or like there's just nothing for them to sense?
[ If that sounds a bit like a detail-focused sciencey sort of question she follows it up with a string of others that sound much less smart if only because there are so many. ]
I wonder how far it goes? How would we test that? Attach a tracker to an arrow and shoot it in? Would it stop when it reaches the front edge here and float or sink or whatever, or keep going with its momentum? Have you touched it? [ This last to the wizards. ] Or put anything live in? Or fake-live? Like, transfigured?